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Titles in this collection
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The Prophets of Doom
The Prophets of Doom explores eleven thinkers who not only dared to contradict the dominant linear and progressive view of history, but also predicted many of the political and social maladies through which we are living.
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Charles, The Alternative King
An Unauthorised Biography
King Charles has entertained a long-standing love affair with alternative medicine. This book describes his passion as it developed during the last 40 years. The King's beliefs, opinions, and ambitions are critically assessed against the background of the scientific evidence. In most instances, the contrast could not be starker.
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Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and the Threat to Academic Freedom
Policies of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity (DIE) have increasingly led to the exclusion of individuals who do not share a radical 'woke' ideology on identity politics and to the suppression of the academic freedom to discuss such dogmas. Here we put together some particularly illustrative cases of such repression in a single book.
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Artivism
The Battle for Museums in the Era of Postmodernism
Using artist statements, theoretical writings, statistical data, historical analysis and insider testimony, British art critic Alexander Adams examines the origins, aims and spread of artivism (activism through art). His findings suggest the perception of artivism as a grassroots humanitarian movement could not be more misleading.
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The Past is a Future Country
The Coming Conservative Demographic Revolution
The Past is a Future Country shows how a resistant class of intelligent, religious conservatives will band together to preserve enclaves of our currently failing civilization — a failing civilization caused by a rejection of traditional values and an epidemic of narcissists who compete to signal their individuality and moral superiority.
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Identity Politics and Tribalism
The New Culture Wars
This book guides the reader through a journey that connects the dots on the various fronts of the culture wars. There is a thread that links together the expressions of group and identity conflicts in today's West: from Left to Right, from SJWs to Trumpites, from feminism to the manosphere, and from critical race theorists to white nationalists.
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Hidden Agender
Transgenderism's Struggle Against Reality
In Hidden Agender, Casey develops a timely and provocative defence of free speech and toleration against the transgenderist ideology that has infiltrated so much of the media, the political establishment and the law. Opposing ideas, not individuals, Hidden Agender provides a compelling critique of the transgender ideologists and trans activists.
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Iconoclasm, Identity Politics and the Erasure of History
This book surveys the origins, uses and manifestations of iconoclasm in history, art and public culture. It is one of the first books to examine the outbreak of iconoclasm in Europe and North America in the summer of 2020 in the context of previous outbreaks.
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Don't Believe What You Think
Arguments for and against SCAM
This book discloses the errors and lies that misled you into believing things about so-called alternative medicine (SCAM) that are untrue. It analyses the many falsehoods used in the promotion of SCAM, explains the erroneous thinking behind them, and presents the scientific evidence in easily understandable terms.
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After #MeToo
Feminism, Patriarchy, Toxic Masculinity and Sundry Cultural Delights
In After #MeToo, Gerard Casey provides a critical assessment of the #MeToo movement, situating it in the context of the radical feminism of which it is just the latest manifestation. He argues that if there is such a thing as the patriarchy, it is singularly and spectacularly ineffectual.
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Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson
Jordan Peterson has attracted a high level of attention. Focusing on Peterson's ideas rather than controversies, this book explores his answers to perennial questions. Champagne unites the different strands of Peterson's thinking in a handy summary and then articulates his main critical concerns.
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ZAP
Free Speech and Tolerance in the Light of the Zero Aggression Principle
In ZAP, Gerard Casey presents a critical and unified approach to both free speech and tolerance based on the Zero Aggression Principle, keeping the critical discussion topical and grounded by reference to current events.
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Democracy — A Work in Progress
An Irreverent Exercise in Political Thought
In this personal, and sometimes challenging, work the author argues that an idealised form of political government has been the goal of mankind since Plato himself. But political thinking has always been a theoretical exercise detached from reality. Little consideration was given to the fact that it is flawed humans who must implement these ideas.
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Culture War
Art, Identity Politics and Cultural Entryism
In Culture War Alexander Adams examines a series of pressing issues in today's culture: censorship, Islamism, Feminism, identity politics, historical reparations and public arts policy.
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The Nature of Goods and the Goods of Nature
Why anti-globalisation is not the answer
The Nature of Goods and the Goods of Nature unfolds a voyage of awareness that links our everyday experiences with the economic theory of the nature of goods to the goods of nature — human nature, social nature, and the environment — that are essential for all of us in our quest for happiness and prosperity.
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At Our Wits' End
Why We're Becoming Less Intelligent and What it Means for the Future
We are becoming less intelligent. This is the shocking yet fascinating message of At Our Wits' End. The authors take us on a journey through the growing body of evidence that we are significantly less intelligent now than we were a hundred years ago, why that may be, and what its consequences might be for the future.
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The Tribe
The Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity
In The Tribe, Ben Cobley guides us around the 'system of diversity' that has resulted from identity politics, exploring the consequences of offering favour and protection to some people but not others based on things like skin colour and gender.
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SCAM
So-Called Alternative Medicine
So-called alternative medicine (SCAM) is popular and therefore important. This book was written by someone who received SCAM as a patient, practised SCAM as a doctor, and researched SCAM as a scientist. It provides an insider's perspective by covering aspects of SCAM which most other books avoid.
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Faking the News
What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
In Faking the News, eleven prominent rhetoric experts explain how Trump's persuasive language works. The authors explain Trump’s persuasive uses of demagoguery, anti-Semitism, alternative facts, populism, charismatic leadership, social media, television, political slogans, visual identity/image, comedy and humour, and shame and humiliation.
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Get Over Yourself
Nietzsche for Our Times
Get Over Yourself both uses Nietzsche's philosophy to understand our society, and takes our society to explain his philosophy.
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Your Brain's Politics
How the Science of Mind Explains the Political Divide
In this brief introduction, Lakoff and Wehling reveal how cognitive science research has advanced our understanding of political thought and language, forcing us to revise common folk theories about the rational voter.
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The Demarchy Manifesto
For Better Public Policy
Demarchy exploits the possibilities of modern communications to give new role to public discussion. It takes the initiative in formulating policy on each specific problem out of the hands of political parties and into the hands of those most strongly affected by that particular problem. John Burnheim explains why this needs to be done.
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Why Rape Culture is a Dangerous Myth
From Steubenville to Ched Evans
This book argues that the belief in a 'rape culture' is seriously distorting our discussion of sexual violence.
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Playing the Long Game
How to Save the West from Short-Termism
This book explains how short-termism is damaging our economy and what we can do about it.
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Capitalism and Human Values
In this book we construct a foundation for values based on our common humanity and explore personal, social and political values from a fresh perspective.
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That's Racist!
How the Regulation of Speech and Thought Divides Us All
This book suggests that modern day anti-racism can be argued as having taken over from old-fashioned racism as the dominant racialising force in British society.
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Global Philosophy
What Philosophy Ought to Be
This book is about education, learning, rational inquiry, philosophy, science studies, problem solving, academic inquiry, global problems, wisdom and, above all, the urgent need for an academic revolution.
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Being Cultured
in defence of discrimination
In this book Angus Kennedy asks if the explosion of culture, and the breaking down of distinctions between high and low culture, has emancipated us or left us adrift without cultural moorings. Is it true that all cultures are equal? Is cultural diversity a good thing? Is it unacceptably elitist to insist on the highest standards of judgment?
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How Universities Can Help Create a Wiser World
The Urgent Need for an Academic Revolution
In this lucid and provocative book, Nicholas Maxwell argues convincingly that we need urgently to bring about a revolution in universities round the world so that their basic aim becomes wisdom, and not just knowledge.
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Global Modernity
And Other Essays
This group of essays follows a similar eclectic pattern to that found in Tom Rubens' previous essay-collections published by Imprint Academic. The author's aim is to appeal widely but also succinctly: in a way that will stimulate readers to develop their own thoughts on, and consult more extensive treatments of, the subjects in question.
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In the Name of the People
Pseudo-Democracy and the Spoiling of our World
Are our 'democracies' truly democratic? In the Name of the People examines the myth of modern democracy and finds it wanting.
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There is No Such Thing As a Free Press...
And we need one more than ever
The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today.
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Reaction
Against the Modern World
In this book the author explores the different facets of reaction and suggests that there is more to the concept than just a gratuitous insult.
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Politics and Neo-Darwinism
And other essays
This collection of essays is eclectic, covering certain political, ethical, cultural and philosophical topics. But running through all the material is the evolutionary-naturalistic perspective stated in the opening essay.
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The Economic Imperative
Leisure and Imagination in the 21st Century
This book explores the role of leisure in modern life. It was written in the belief that leisure sets us apart as a species, that what is "useless" by commercial standards is probably the best thing we have going for us, and that leisure is under attack, in high danger of being lost, and has been for some time.
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Panic on a Plate
How Society Developed an Eating Disorder
The range, cost and quality of food in Western societies have never been more favourable, yet food is also the focus of a great deal of anxiety. There are concerns we'll get steadily fatter and more unhealthy, with consequences for our quality of life, our children's behaviour and the environment. This book challenges these ideas.
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Avatar-Philosophy (and -Religion) Or FAITHEISM
Are you prepared, either as an atheist or a religious believer, to have your ideas of God, the self, other people, the body, the soul, spirituality, and faith challenged in an unexpected and original way? Here is a book that moves out from under and away from the received notions of those ponderous topics, whether or not you believe in the divine.
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The Sarkozy Phenomenon
In this short book the author argues that the Sarkozy phenomenon is best explained by principal reference to the notion of Bonapartism, which of course has a long history in French politics.
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Democracy and the Fall of the West
Democracy is killing the West. That is the stunning conclusion of this book that tears apart the consensus underpinning modern political assumptions. It argues that the secret of the West's success is not Democracy, but Liberalism.
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The Happy Passion
A Personal View of Jacob Bronowski
Bronowski was a professional scientist, scientific administrator, poet, philosopher, dramatist and TV and radio personality. His final achievement, the groundbreaking television series The Ascent of Man influenced and inspired millions of ordinary people by bringing an awareness of human evolution and the adventure of science into their homes.
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Just Another Ape?
This book argues that whatever first impressions might tell us, apes are really not 'just like us'. Science has provided strong evidence that the boundaries between us and other species are vast.
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Premiership
The Development, Nature and Power of the Office of the British Prime Minister
This book combines the methods of history and political science to produce theories of the development, nature and power of the premiership, and to explain the implications for present politicians and analysts.
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Economic Reform and a Liberal Culture
And Other Essays on Social and Cultural Topics
This second collection of essays for the Societas series by Tom Rubens continues the author's discussion of contemporary issues contained in "Progressive Secular Society" (Imprint Academic 2008).
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Standing Up to Supernanny
Parenthood, we are told, requires a massive adjustment to our lives, emotions, and relationships, and we have to be taught how to deal with that. But can it really be so bad that we need constant counselling and parenting classes? This book is about asking: Why have we invited Supernanny into our living rooms - and how can we kick her out?
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Here For Our Children's Children?
Why we should care for the earth
This study reviews the many different bases for wanting to preserve the environment. By seeing how protagonists approach the same situation from different assumptions, some of the origins of environmental conflict may be established, and ways of resolving conflict can be identified.
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Darwinian Conservatism
A Disputed Question
A reprint of Larry Arnhart's essay Darwinian Conservatism with comment and criticism from a variety of contributors.
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Religion, Politics, Evangelism
This book seeks to show how religion is controlled by political ideologies, and how evangelism is moulded and manipulated by the demands of the dominant political order of the day.
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Self and Society
Studies in the Evolution of Culture
A series of essays on the evolution of culture, dealing with topics including the city and consciousness, evolution of the afterlife, literary and mathematical archetypes, machine consciousness and the implications of 9/11, and the invasion of Iraq.
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Unlearning
Or how NOT to be governed?
The aim of this book is to show why we should hold 'unlearning' to be a crucial ‘capability’ in and for education at this point in our history.
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Independent
The Rise of the Non-aligned Politician
Richard Berry traces the increase in independent MPs using case studies and interviews to test the theory that these are not isolated cases, but part of a permanent trend in British politics,a shift away from the party system in favour of independent non-aligned representatives of the people.
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Balancing Act
National Identity and Sovereignty for Britain in Europe
This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people.
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Seeking Meaning and Making Sense
Collection of short essays that range across philosophy, politics, general culture, morality, science, religion and art, focusing on questions of meaning, value and understanding.
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Progressive Secular Society
And other essays relevant to secularism
This book gives a set of 'secular thoughts for the day' – many only a page or two long – on topics as varied as Shakespeare and Comte, economics, science and social action.
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Healing, Hype or Harm?
A Critical Analysis of Complementary or Alternative Medicine
The scientists, academics and practitioners writing this book are not 'against' complementary or alternative medicine (CAM), but they are very much ‘for’ evidence-based medicine and single standards. They aim to counter-balance the many uncritical books on CAM and to stimulate intelligent, well-informed public debate.
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Enemies of Progress
Dangers of Sustainability
This polemical book examines the concept of sustainability and presents a critical exploration of its all-pervasive influence on society, arguing that sustainability, manifested in several guises, represents a pernicious and corrosive doctrine that has survived primarily because there seems to be no alternative to its canon.
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In Bed with Madness
Trying to make sense in a world that doesn't
In Bed with Madness is 'a well-argued, powerful and profound indictment of contemporary culture', stylishly written – a reviewer said he would have bought it just for its humour!
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The Greek Inheritance
Ancient Greek wisdom for the digital era
The Greek Inheritance traces the conflict between Greek values and those of the repressive, religious or capitalist order throughout the millennia. The book is challenging and well-written with a light, humorous touch.
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The Future of the Past
From the culture of profit to the culture of joy
Universalism in its old forms has, just like door-to-door milkmen, gone for good. But the search for some universally accepted ethical standards cannot be abandoned. Looking into our world from the classical Greek point of view, Yannis Andricopoulos wonders whether we cannot place Justice again at the heart of our morality.
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Froude Today
A.L. Rowse called fellow-historian James Anthony Froude the 'last great Victorian awaiting revival'. The question of power is the problem that perplexes every age: in his historical works Froude examined how it applied to the Tudor period, and defended Carlyle against the charge that he held the doctrine that ‘Might is Right’.
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Universities
The Recovery of an Idea
Using some themes of Cardinal Newman's classic The Idea of a University as a springboard, this extended essay aims to address the problems of modern universities.
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Forgiveness
How Religion Endangers Morality
In his book The Moral Case against Religious Belief (1997), the author argued that some important virtues cease to be virtues at all when set in a religious context, and that a religious life is, in many respects, not a good life to lead. In this sequel he takes up the theme again.
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Joseph Conrad Today
This book argues that the novelist Joseph Conrad's work speaks directly to us in a way that none of his contemporaries can. Conrad's scepticism, pessimism, emphasis on the importance and fragility of community, and the difficulties of escaping our history are important tools for understanding the political world in which we live.
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Why Spirituality is Difficult for Westerners
Dr Hay is Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the University of Aberdeen. A zoologist by profession, his research has been guided by the hypothesis that religious or spiritual awareness is biologically natural to the human species and has been selected for in evolution.
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Public Health and Globalisation
Why a National Health Service is Morally Indefensible
Claims that there are good arguments for a public health service that do not amount to arguments for a national health service, but for something that looks far more like a transnational health service.
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Earthy Realism
The Meaning of Gaia
GAIA, named after the ancient Greek mother-goddess, is the notion that the Earth and the life on it form an active, self-maintaining whole. With global warming now an accepted fact, the lessons of GAIA have never been more relevant and urgent.
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Paradoxes of Power
Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude
The book describes Sir Alfred Sherman's early relationship with Sir Keith Joseph and his own role in the formation of the Centre for Policy Studies in 1974. Sherman examines the origins and development of 'Thatcherism', but concludes that the Conservative administrations of the 1980s were, for the most part, an ‘interlude’.
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Right Road to Radical Freedom
This work focuses on the topic of freedom. The author starts with the old issue of free will — do we as individual human beings choose our conduct, at least partly independently, freely?
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Debating Humanism
This book features a cross-disciplinary dialogue among writers who are sympathetic to the humanist tradition and interested in developing a new humanist project through debate.
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Village Democracy
The author passionately sets out his argument for radical decentralisation of power as the only answer to the current crises in politics, trade, ecology, and international affairs.
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Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms.
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Putting Morality Back into Politics
Machiavelli almost succeeded in removing morality from European politics and, indeed, since his day it has sometimes been assumed that morality and politics are separate. Ryder argues that the time has come for public policies to be seen to be based upon moral objectives.
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Referendum Roundabout
A lively and sharp critique of the role of the referendum in modern British politics.
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Knowledge Monopolies
The Academisation of Society
Historians and sociologists chart the consequences of the expansion of knowledge; philosophers of science examine the causes. This book bridges the gap. The focus is on 'academisation'.
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Moral Mind
A Study of What it is to be Human
The reality and validity of the moral sense — which ordinary people take for granted — took a battering in the last century. Haslam shows how important the moral sense is to the human personality and exposes the weakness in much current thinking that suggests otherwise.
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Darwinian Conservatism
This book suggests that Darwinian biology sustains conservative social thought by showing how the human capacity for spontaneous order arises from social instincts and a moral sense shaped by natural selection in human evolutionary history.
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Doing Less with Less
Making Britain More Secure
The only way to avoid dodgy dossiers and dubious foreign adventures is to acknowledge that the post-Cold War world is a far safer place than neoconservative rhetoricians would have us believe. The Ministry of Defence should reclaim its pre-Orwellian meaning and the armed forces should be scaled back accordingly.
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Who's Afraid of a European Constitution?
In this short but authoritative book, the nature and purpose of the European Constitution are explained by someone involved in its preparation.
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Great Abdication
Why Britain's Decline is the Fault of the Middle Class
The middle class provides British society with its stability and strength. According to Deane's contentious thesis, our middle class has abstained from its responsibility to uphold societal values, and the enormously damaging collapse of our society’s norms and standards is largely a result of that abdication.
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Tony Blair and the Ideal Type
The 'ideal type' is Max Weber's hypothetical leading democratic politician, whom the author finds realized in Tony Blair.
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Paradoxical Primate
Human beings have an evolved but highly adaptable nature. This book sets out to establish a new framework for understanding human nature, from an evolutionary perspective but drawing on existing social sciences.
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Why the Mind is Not a Computer
A Pocket Lexicon of Neuromythology
The equation "Mind = Machine" is false. This pocket lexicon of "neuromythology" shows why.
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Snake That Swallowed Its Tail
Some Contradictions in Modern Liberalism
Tracing its effects through the media, politics and the public services, the author argues that hollowed-out liberalism has helped to produce our present discontent.
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Our Last Great Illusion
A Radical Psychoanalytical Critique of Therapy Culture
'Therapy may be mad,' declares Rob Weatherill in this outspoken volume. This book aims to refute the fashion for a return to a pre-Cartesian ideal of harmony and integration.
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Party's Over
Blueprint for a Very English Revolution
This book examines the historical forces that gave rise to the modern political party and questions its role in the post-ideological age. If we all now share the liberal market consensus, then what is the function of the party?
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Off with Their Wigs!
Judicial Revolution in Modern Britain
On Thursday June 12th 2003, a press release concerning a Cabinet reshuffle declared as a footnote that the office of Lord Chancellor was to be abolished and that a new Supreme Court would replace the House of Lords as the highest court in the United Kingdom. This book critically analyses the Government's proposals.
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Modernisation Imperative
This book argues that contemporary society in Western democracies is generally misunderstood to be a pyramidal hierarchy dominated either by government or the economy. Neither view is correct.
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Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order
Democracy is not a universal good, it is a political system, and like all political systems it is open to corruption. The word 'democracy' means ‘rule by the people’, not rule by a simple majority. To achieve rule by all the people, it used to be accepted that as much of civil life should be kept out of party politics as possible.
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Liberty Option
The Liberty Option advances the idea that for compelling moral as well as practical reasons it is the free society -- with the rule of law founded on the principles of private property rights, its complete respect for individual sovereignty and properly limited legal authorities -- not one or another version of statism that serves justice best.
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Last Prime Minister
Being Honest About the U.K. Presidency
In The Last Prime Minister the author shows the British people how they have acquired an executive presidency by stealth. It is the first-ever attempt to codify the Prime Minister's powers, many hidden in the mysteries of the royal prerogative.
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Case Against the Democratic State
An Essay in Cultural Criticism
We are now so familiar and accepting of the State's pre-eminence in all things that few think to question it, and most suppose that democratic endorsement legitimizes it. The aim of this book is to present a compelling argument against both presumptions.
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God in Us
A Case for Christian Humanism
God In Us is a radical representation of the Christian faith for the 21st century. Following the example of the Old Testament prophets and the first-century Christians it overturns received ideas about God. God is not an invisible person 'out there' somewhere, but lives in the human heart and mind as 'the sum of all our values and ideals'.
Featured Titles
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Selfhood, Autism and Thought Insertion
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Lady Mary Shepherd
Selected Writings
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Immigration Control in a Warming World
Realizing the Moral Challenges of Climate Migration
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The Prophets of Doom
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Myth, Meaning, and Antifragile Individualism: On the Ideas of Jordan Peterson
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The Keys to Democracy
Sortition as a New Model for Citizen Power
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Seeing
Beyond Dreaming to Religious Experiences of Light
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Faking the News
What Rhetoric Can Teach Us About Donald J. Trump
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Mary Catherine Bateson
Compositions in Living Cybernetics
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Radical Transformation
The Unexpected Interplay of Consciousness and Reality
Imants Barušs